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University of California, Los Angeles National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) |
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Information provided by: | University of California, Los Angeles |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00593515 |
Does parenting style affect emotion regulation among children who initially demonstrate high levels of fear and anxiety? Although recent correlational research has demonstrated a linkage between parental behaviors, such as excessive intrusiveness, and children's manifestations of fear and anxiety, it is not clear if parenting behaviors directly influence children's ability to regulate these emotions. Alternatively, these parental behaviors may be elicited by children who express fears and anxieties more frequently than other children do. Experimental research designs would offer a more definitive test of these competing explanations of the extant correlational findings. Intervention studies, in particular, can test whether experimentally manipulating current family interaction patterns affects children's ability to regulate emotion. This study provides a preliminary experimental test of the relationship between parental behavior and children's regulation of fear and anxiety. Some 40 clinically anxious youth, aged 6-13, were randomly assigned to a family intervention program for childhood anxiety problems, which includes extensive parent communication training, or a child intervention program without parent-training. By comparing these two interventions, we tested if it was possible to improve parenting behaviors—such as intrusiveness—through intensive parent-training, above and beyond the effects of involving children in a child intervention program. We then tested the impact of this change in parental behaviors on children's ability to regulate fear and anxiety. We hypothesized that parent-training would reduce intrusiveness, which would in turn improve children's anxiety outcomes.
Condition | Intervention | Phase |
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Separation Anxiety Disorder Social Phobia Generalized Anxiety Disorder |
Behavioral: Family cognitive behavioral therapy Behavioral: Child-focused cognitive behavioral therapy |
Phase II |
Study Type: | Interventional |
Study Design: | Treatment, Randomized, Single Blind (Outcomes Assessor), Parallel Assignment |
Official Title: | Effects of Parental Behavior on Child Anxiety Regulation |
Enrollment: | 40 |
Study Start Date: | March 2000 |
Study Completion Date: | April 2004 |
Primary Completion Date: | April 2004 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure) |
Arms | Assigned Interventions |
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1: Experimental
Family CBT
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Behavioral: Family cognitive behavioral therapy
12-16 weekly sessions of family cognitive behavioral therapy, 60-80 minutes each
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2: Active Comparator
Child-focused CBT
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Behavioral: Child-focused cognitive behavioral therapy
12-16 weekly sessions of child-focused cognitive behavioral therapy, 60-80 minutes each
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Ages Eligible for Study: | 6 Years to 13 Years |
Genders Eligible for Study: | Both |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
Exclusion Criteria:
United States, California | |
UCLA | |
Los Angeles, California, United States, 90095 |
Principal Investigator: | Jeffrey Wood, Ph.D. | University of California, Los Angeles |
Principal Investigator: | Marian Sigman, Ph.D. | University of California, Los Angeles |
Responsible Party: | UCLA ( Jeffrey J. Wood ) |
Study ID Numbers: | 1 F31 MH64999 |
Study First Received: | January 3, 2008 |
Last Updated: | January 3, 2008 |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00593515 History of Changes |
Health Authority: | United States: Institutional Review Board |
Anxiety Disorders Mental Disorders Mental Disorders Diagnosed in Childhood Anxiety, Separation Phobic Disorders |
Pathologic Processes Disease Anxiety Disorders Mental Disorders |
Mental Disorders Diagnosed in Childhood Anxiety, Separation Phobic Disorders |